Div.8 Chapter 63

The Truth of Taekwondo is both Right and Strong

“I think I am still deficient.”

“What is the difference between sufficiency and deficiency?”

Taekwondo permeates your inside through training and your life through yourself. On the other hand, the entirety of daily life forms you, who also determines the momentary Taekwondo. Taekwondo is at once a part of life and a way of life. Therefore, the moment of facing your opponent always lies concealed within your daily life, which is in turn condensed in a moment. A moment is not separated from eternity.

Taekwondo and life permeate one another, erasing their distinctions just as everything is originally without distinction. In its origin, every thought comes from action and intention to act, and it is composed of words and logic. Words and logic always include names, which inevitably rely on distinctions. Here you can see the limitations of words and logic. This distinctive nature destroys harmony, the perfect harmony of the world and you. If the truth were to contain the true figure of things it must be beyond such distinctions, so it cannot be expressed in words. The word is nothing but a sort of tool.

TAEKWONDO plunges into being itself not through words but as action. And it expresses no distinctions between this and that. A Taekwondo-Een does not face the world with words but enters into it. That is, he meets and touches beings at first hand. Thus, he accepts everything as it is. The ultimate truth of Taekwondo can only be felt and experienced; it cannot be expressed or analyzed. The truth of Taekwondo, which is beyond distinction, cannot be explained in words but must be delivered directly from mind to mind.

You should empty everything of yours in order to destroy the wall between minds, receptive to all things with an impartial mind. Then all attachments and negations will be emptied. This is giving up everything of yours to attain TAEKWONDO. What vice could break into this? Therefore, it is impossible for a truly vicious man to reach the ultimate truth of Taekwondo, as has been taught in most didactic tales. For vice is an attachment to or coveting of some trivial object, and the confused contradiction of a closed mind. The true should be strong. Therefore, if there were an ultimate truth it should be both right and strong for man. The truth of Taekwondo is just such an entirety as original life.